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5 months ago

in SolidWorks World 2009 Roll Call on The SolidWorks Geek
I will be presenting to the educational community on Monday. I will be sharing ideas on how to use SolidWorks to compliment a Lecture course Design For Manufacturing. Topics will be a revamped Mountain Board Project with Material/MFG process selection. Preparing models based on the guidelines for the chosen mfg process to ensure model dimensions can be used in the 2D Drawing. We use the DFMXpert to validate our designs against the the DFMXpert guideline checklist. If things are flagged can we back up our design to justify the break from the guidelines. So on and so on.

1 year ago

in Why Smart Numbers are Dumb: SolidWorks Guidelines for File Names on SolidSmack
I agree with most of this.
I like to keep the numbering plain jane serial numbering. With the big push to use Data Management solutions the need to keep everything organized with similar numbering or an other link is completely unnecessary with a good pdm system in place. A true Data base pdm system (not excel, note pad or access based) will maintain the proper links, referneces as well as provide a larger search forum using the file properties or meta data.

1 year ago

in Bionic Arm, 30 Muscles and Finger Bones? on SolidSmack
I currently instruct Engineering Drafting, Design CAD Technologies at Northwest Technical Institute in Eagan, MN. We currently instruct on SolidWorks and Pro-E. I am happy to hear people commenting on the need for basic board drafting experience. I am thinking of a way to use SolidWorks drawings for students to get that board experience. Start em out on just the drawing templates where they are required the "Draft" the parts, assemblies and so forth. This should get them to appreciate the power of 3D while instilling some core Drafting concpets and practices. What do you all think.

As for the Pro-E question, I agree with most. Pro-E does a fantastic job of teaching better modeling practices by making it harder to do things that are note fully constrained. Lots of button clicks though. Hands down our students prefer SolidWorks to Pro-E (mainly because it is easier). Although when asked they do agree that their models are generally more predictable in Pro-E.

If any of you have any old/obsolete project specifications that you would be willing to donate to our students for real world projects I would greatly appreciate them: cmaccormack@nti.edu
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